INDIAN RIVER COUNTY −A local man on probation for a 2013 federal conviction of possession of child sexual abuse material was charged May 21 with over 80 counts of the same offense following a March search of his property, according to law enforcement records.
Federal probation officers and detectives seized a phone said to contain the material, records show.
The law enforcement officials carried out a search warrant March 26 at the residence of Daniel Wagner, 42, in the 8000 block of 22nd Street, and found a phone in his pickup truck said to contain sexual content involving children leading to the 81 counts added May 21, according to the records.
Wagner was initially charged with two counts of failure to register an email address following the discovery of the phone in the search that a detective in an affidavit stated was requested because of a federal probation officer’s suspicions he was in violation of his probation conditions.
According to conditions of his federal supervision stated in the affidavit, he was prohibited from accessing any computer or the internet and could be subjected to unannounced searches.
Wagner was arrested and placed in the Indian River County Jail the day of the search on two charges related to not reporting an email address. The 81 counts added May 21 arose from what was said to be sexual content of children on a phone inside his pickup truck. His bond was set at $1.6 million, according to Sheriff’s Office records.
His public defender, who could not immediately be reached.
Cracking down on state sex offender registration
The charges and re-arrest of Wagner May 21, followed a May 20 announcement by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement of the arrests of two Indian River County men on charges related to failing to meet requirements of state mandated sex offender registration laws or for giving false statements about vehicle, home or employment.
Along with state law enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service assisted in the arrests after efforts to reach them at their registered addresses were unsuccessful, a Indian River County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
The efforts were described as the “routine checks we do … periodically throughout the year,” said Lt. Kevin Jaworski, referring to the agency’s monitoring of those registered on the state’s sex offender database.
“Sex offenders get checked at minimum twice a year and sexual predators get checked four times a year at minimum,” Jaworski said.
The men were identified as Terry Glispy, 52, arrested May 13 and Nicolas Ospina-De La Hoz, 21, arrested May 9.
Glispy was convicted on a 1999 charge of lewd and lascivious indecent assault on a child under 16 and in 2002 sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Ospina-De La Hoz was around 17 in 2018 and was declared “adjudicated delinquent” on a conviction for a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation on a victim under 12 years old.
He was sentenced as a delinquent and labeled a “juvenile sexual offender” by the state and the conviction led to a lifetime sexual offender designation, according to law enforcement records.
A stipulation of his registration required “all qualified offenders … report in person at the sheriff’s office within 48 hours of vacating a permanent residence…” or to report any new residence or change in employment to FDLE or to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, according to court records.
“We have a sex offender specialist who takes all of the updates any time they change cars or addresses,” Jaworski said.
In the reports detectives said during routine address checks in March at his listed home in the 100 block of 13th Avenue home it was learned he had moved to Sebastian and had changed jobs without reporting either change in earlier registration checks.
According to the affidavit, Ospina-De La Hoz told detectives he was living out of his vehicle in a parking lot.
Law enforcement office records show he was arrested on a warrant May 9 on multiple charges for failing to report change in address and license and providing false registration status, and remains incarcerated on $90,000 bail.
Glispy was stopped May 13 while driving on 45th Street on warrants with two charges of failing to report a change in vehicle ownership as a sex offender and providing false information during sex offender registration.
He was incarcerated and released May 14 on $80,000 bond, according to jail records.
Corey Arwood is a breaking news reporter for TCPalm. Follow Corey on Twitter @coreyarwood, or reach him by phone at 772-978-2246.
This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Law enforcement rounds up sex offenders in Indian River County not keeping registration current
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